Advances in Engineering Research, volume 115

2nd Annual International Conference on Energy, Environmental & Sustainable Ecosystem Development (EESED 2016)

Software design of computer-aided ventilation

and dust control system*

Xiu-Li Lin1, a, Yao-Man Zhang2, b, Guang-Xuan Liu1, c and Ya-Ping Cao1, d

1School of resources and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University,

Shenyang, 110819, China

2School of mechanical Engineering & Automation, Northeastern University,

Shenyang, 110819, China

aE-mail: Linxiuli@mail.neu.edu.cn, bE-mail: zhymlxl@163.com,
cE-mail: 505845488@qq.com, dE-mail: 853082074@qq.com

The design of ventilation and dust control system has become the important part of
environmental projects to provide a safe and health working condition for workers. A
computer aided design software was developed based on ventilation and dust control
theory using Visual Basic to help engineers to design ventilation system efficiently and
conveniently. The software developed could help users to determine air flow rate,
velocity, diameter of ducts, resistance of the system, fan, duct collector based on database
of the software. The design project could be finished quickly following the design
process in computer aided ventilation and dust control software which is effective and
practicable.
Keywords: Computer-Aided Design; Ventilation And Dust Control System; Software
Design; Occupational Safety And Health.

1. Introduction
Occupational safety and healthy have became an social focus problem in china.
Ventilation is an efficient method to control dusts, toxic gases to protect
employees from many kinks of occupational disease. The well designed
ventilation and dust control system is important for the plant to improve its
working environment, too.
Computer Aided Design(CAD) is widely used in the industrial design
process, which can greatly improve the design efficiency and quality. It is a
good way to program a computer aided design software using in ventilation and
dust control system design, to help engineers design system rapidly, and
effectively.

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This work was financially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central
Universities (N140104001).

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Some ventilation design software such as Tianzheng HVAC(heating

ventilation and air conditioning) series, Hongye company ACSV7.0 (8.0), and
HaoChen technology development company INT6. 6, have been used in the
design process in China[1-3]. But these software mostly focuses on HVAC
system which did not think about the dust control process.
There are some good software for ventilation systems abroad, such as Excel
5000, Duct size 4.0(6.0) and so on[4-7].These software can not only design
ducts, but also analysis duct systems. But they are not convenient for the user to
design a ventilation and dust control system.
An new computer-aided ventilation and dust control system design software
which include database of many kinds of fans and dust collectors and other data
that design needed was developed based on Visual Basic(VB)program and
ventilation theory to help engineers design the system efficiently, accurately
and conveniently.

2. Software Design of Computer Aided Ventilation and Dust control

system

2.1. Programming language Selecting

There are some common computer programming languages such as, C, C++, VB,
VF, JAVA, ASP, NET, JSP, etc. VB is short for Visual Basic, designed in 1991
by Microsoft. It is a visual, high-level structured programming language, based
on object oriented and event driven. It’s efficient and quick to develop software
systems. VB was chose as programming language.

2.2. Software designing of computer aided system

The overall framework of the ventilation and dust control system design
software is showed in Figure 1. The main functions that the design software
contains air flow rate determination, draft designing, ducts designing, dust
collector choosing, fan choosing, final design plan drawing and help.

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Fig. 1. The overall framework of the software

2.3. Air flow rate determination

It's very important to determine the air flow rate of the ventilation system
accurately. Some kinds of equipments have reference exhaust air flow rate
valves based on the model of the equipment, which can be obtained from
handbooks. Data Collection work were done and exhaust air flow rate value of
some crusher and grinding equipments, etc. were included in the software.
Select the equipment and then the software can provide the air flow rate of
exhaust of the equipment.

Fig. 2. Form of exhaust air flow rate selection.

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2.4. Draft design

The draft design could be designed by engineers after the system analysis. Using
computer aided design software such as AutoCAD, the engineers can draw
axonometric drawing wind network layout sketch, and mark the wind pipe, air
flow rate of each pipe, length of pipes and the coefficient of local resistance and
other important performance parameters.

2.5. Ducts design

Air velocity, diameter of ducts could be determined based on database of the
designed software as shown in Figure 3. The velocity data of fiber dust, mineral
dust, metal powder and other kinds of dust could be selected by using the
software. Then the diameter of the duct could be determined by using the
window of duct diameter calculation and selection, which is shown in Figure 4.
Frictional resistance per meter, local resistance coefficient could be calculated
and the resistance of the parallel duct could be compared and adjusted to
balance. The final value could be collected in Figure 5.

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Fig. 3. Air velocity selection

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Fig. 4. Duct diameter calculation and selection

2.6. Dust collector choosing

Calculate the air volume and collection efficiency of the system, dust collector
could be determined appropriately. Input dust concentration of the workshop,
the concentration allowed to be discharged, and the air volume of the system,
calculating by the software, the efficiency and the air flow rate of the dust
collector could be determined. According to the database in the software an
appropriate dust collector could be selected.

2.7. Fan choosing

Usually used fans were collected in database of ventilation and dust control
design system. After Calculating the total air flow rate and pressure, engineers
can choose the appropriate fan.

2.8. Help model

Help model provide assistance for users, including the steps of using the
software and application examples for reference.

3. Application of the Software

The project including two cone crushers, which diameter is 2100mm, feeding
from the conveyor belt, is used to crush limestone. The content of SiO2 in the

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broken limestone dust is lower than<10%. The dust concentration is 2600mg/

m 3 .the work shop room is 12 meters long, 8 meters wide, and 11 meters high.
Following the design steps, users can choose the dust collector after
calculating dust collection efficiency, choose ventilator and then design the draft
of the system.
The velocity, diameter, length can be determined following the design step
using the software. The frictional resistance, the local resistance can be
calculated under the help of the software. Then we can judge and adjust the
balance of parallel resistance. The calculation form of the duct is showed in
Figure 5.

Fig. 5. Form of pipeline hydraulic calculation table.

Based on the design draft and the calculating results, formal drawing of the
system can be done. A part of drawing is shown in Figure 6.

Fig. 6. Formal design drawing of the system.

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4. Conclusions
Based on theory of ventilation and dust control, a computer aided ventilation
and dust control system design software was designed using VB. Database
include many kinds of dust, dust producing equipment, dust collector, fan, duct
diameter, local friction coefficient, etc. were established. The database could
help users to choose the data needed directly. The ventilation and dust control
system design, which include the calculation of ventilation ducts, the choice of
dust collectors, and the choice of ventilators, could be easily finished by
following the process of the software. The computer-aided design ventilation
and dust control system software is effective and practicable when a case was
used to give a practical application. It can provide a useful tool for the engineers
who will design a local ventilation and dust control system.

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